Thetorment of secrecy : the background and consequences of American security policies

著者

• Shils, Edward Albert

書誌事項

Thetorment of secrecy : the background and consequences of American security policies

Edward A. Shils ; with an introduction by Daniel P. Moynihan

Ivan R. Dee, 1996

注記

Originally published: Glencoe, Ill. : Free Press, c1956

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内容説明・目次

内容説明

Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States. Mr. Shils's "torment" is not only that of the individual caught up in loyalty and security procedures; it is also the torment of the accuser and judge. This essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy considers the cold war preoccupation with espionage, sabotage, and subversion at home, assessing the magnitude of such threats and contrasting it to the agitation-by lawmakers, investigators, and administrators-so wildly directed against the "enemy." Mr. Shils's examination of a recurring American characteristic is as timely as ever. "Brief...lucid... brilliant."-American Political Science Review. "A fine, sophisticated analysis of American social metabolism."-New Republic. "An excitingly lucid and intelligent work on a subject of staggering importance...the social preconditions of political democracy."-Social Forces.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA27989724
• ISBN:
  • 156663105X
• LCCN: 95050421
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Chicago
• ページ数/冊数: xxiii, 238 p.
• 大きさ: 21 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : E743.5
  • DC20 : 327.73
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Internal security -- United States
  • LCSH : Communism -- United States
  • LCSH : United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1953